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The Rhetoric of Redemption
Kenneth Burke's Redemption Drama and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' Speech
The Rhetoric of Redemption
Kenneth Burke's Redemption Drama and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' Speech
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Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech has become an icon of American public culture, its imagery and words profoundly influencing the civil rights debate. In The Rhetoric of Redemption Bobbitt applies Kenneth Burke's theory of guilt-purification-redemption in a close, critical analysis of the speech, developing and examining the implications of Burke's redemption drama in contemporary public discourse. He studies the impact of the speech over time, arguing that, while King's speech contains an inspirational vision of national redemption, it does so by omitting the real difficulties of overcoming America's racial divisions.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 1 Context and Critical Methodologies
Chapter 2 2 Agent and Scene
Chapter 3 3 Act: The Redemption of the Audience's Guilt
Chapter 4 4 Purification and Redemption
Chapter 5 5 Metaphoric Analysis
Chapter 6 6 Evaluation of the Theory of Guilt-Purification-Redemption
Chapter 7 7 Evaluation of "I Have a Dream" and Its Legacy
Chapter 8 8 Conclusion
Chapter 9 References
Chapter 10 Index
Chapter 11 About the Author
Chapter 2 2 Agent and Scene
Chapter 3 3 Act: The Redemption of the Audience's Guilt
Chapter 4 4 Purification and Redemption
Chapter 5 5 Metaphoric Analysis
Chapter 6 6 Evaluation of the Theory of Guilt-Purification-Redemption
Chapter 7 7 Evaluation of "I Have a Dream" and Its Legacy
Chapter 8 8 Conclusion
Chapter 9 References
Chapter 10 Index
Chapter 11 About the Author
Product details
| Published | 16 Feb 2007 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 156 |
| ISBN | 9780742529281 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Dimensions | 233 x 153 mm |
| Series | Communication, Media, and Politics |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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